Chat is this real?

  • Vingst [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    That helicopter looks 3d. Also wouldnt super expensive thermal image thingies see paint different? Also i think people are saying it because the damage doesn’t look the same in thermal as it does in normal vision. Also also, there’s a shadow (or really, a cooler spot on the ground because of shadow), that’d be hard to paint for thermal.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Wouldn’t be surprised, if they’re just bombing shit hoping to cripple their military, they’re definitely not scoping anything out to make sure it’s legit

    • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      If they don’t scout it out then there are fewer people accountable when they bomb children. Same in Iraq and Afghanistan, they would get a tip that someone was working with the enemy and bomb them without any verification before or after.

    • Soot [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      I find that very unconvincing. In the above video, there’s soil getting blasted up, way into the air, in every direction, followed by a cartoonishly circular crater with low heat/IR output (ie a crater of cold, revealed soil). There’s absolutely zero measureable wobble on the ‘target’.

      Whereas the video in your link shows what you’d actually expect from hitting a target: Metal fragments scattering unequally and a few paving stones on a very low arc/skimming the ground. Plus the rotors do noticeably wobble.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    1 month ago

    Unfortunately I doubt it. Where’d the video come from?

    The US probably wouldn’t release such a video.